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Through the course of his investigation we encounter an intriguing array of suspects, including a lovelorn mistress, a frail mother with a ferocious grip on the family, a wife with an overly loving relationship with her cousin, a bitterly estranged daughter with a lover in the Communist Party, and a brother-in-law with several lovers among the Berowne's servant staff--one of whom is both a decoy member of the Communist Party and an undercover policewoman...
...Nancy, you have to believe either that Vicious and Spungen were pathfinders of a new sensibility, only too frail to find profit or pleasure in it, or that their symbiotic degradation is in some way instructive or entertaining. But no. The twin evil geniuses of the Sex Pistols were Lead Singer Johnny Rotten and the band's manager Malcolm McLaren. They defined the attitude of punk music; Sid and Nancy were just the creatures that lived and died under that rock. And since they begin in life's gutter, their fall into the sewer is a boring given. Alex...
...truth . . . The media are effective as the instruments of truth, from which they draw their real power. The media do not make or unmake governments; tanks do that, and, more rarely but surely, people do. And, even armed with the truth, the media's power is frail. Without the people's support, it can be shut off with the ease of turning a light switch. An official threat to your advertisers, a grip on your paper supply or a squad of soldiers at your doorstep, and your last issue becomes your paper's valedictory...
Kennedy, 96, has been in frail health in recent years and lives at the family compound at Hyannis Port. She did not attend...
Hersh's explanations in the Atlantic seem far more convincing. They involve no conspiracies or even any evil intent on either side. Yet that is hardly reassuring. It is in some ways more frightening to be reminded just how fragile sophisticated military systems are and how frail their human operators...